Senator Edward M. Brooke: the First African American Elected to the Senate
Event Date:
Tuesday, February 15, 2022 - 7:00pm
October of 2019 marked the centennial of the birth of BU Law graduate, Edward M. Brooke, who blazed a trail across the 20th century as a decorated military officer, an attorney, a crusading Massachusetts Attorney General, and as a Republican Senator from Massachusetts, the African American man popularly elected to that role in US history.